Areas of Practice
Employment & Labor
D&W Law represents individuals and companies concerning age, race, sex, and disability discrimination charges and prosecutes and defends discrimination charges with the U S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), the correlated state agencies, and in federal and state courts.
D&W Law routinely litigates cases arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
D&W Law also provides individuals and companies with advice and counseling on reduction in force and reorganization matters, as well as collective actions, wage and hour, overtime, and time shaving disputes under the FLSA, and hiring and discharge of personnel under federal, state, and city laws.
Additionally, D&W Law provides compliance trainings to employees and managers (e.g., dispute resolution, diversity and inclusion, and workplace discrimination), conducts in house harassment investigations, drafts and updates personnel policies and employment handbooks, and drafts and negotiates employee contracts and separation agreements.
Business Law
D&W Law views our business clients as partners. You understand how to build the business of your dreams; we understand the law and its practical implications for your business, as well as what is needed in order to thrive in today’s complex and ever-changing economic and regulatory environment.
Our clients’ success is our top priority. We serve as trusted advisors — getting to know our clients, their businesses and goals, to proactively identify and resolve legal challenges and mitigate future risk.
We have broad-based experience counseling clients across the full range of business law services, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, real estate, financings, hiring, reductions in force, and other disciplines necessary for a full-service, multidisciplinary, approach to legal challenges.
Whether your company is a startup, a medium-sized business or a Fortune 500 company, D&W Law’s business attorneys provide creative and strategic solutions to help your business flourish.
Wills, Trusts & Estates
D&W Law crafts estate plans to protect our client’s assets from creditors, minimize federal and state estate tax, and maximize income tax opportunities available to our clients. Using sophisticated wealth transfer and preservation strategies, we help our clients maximize the enjoyment of our client’s property during their lifetime, while also facilitating appropriate lifetime gifting strategies and providing for an orderly and efficient transfer of property to beneficiaries upon your death.
Our services may include an estate and gift tax analysis including projections of potential estate tax savings achieved through specific planning strategies and an income tax and cash flow analysis in conjunction with proposed wealth transfer strategies.
Through the strategic use of irrevocable trusts, D&W Law can help protect your assets from financial abuse, lawsuits, divorce, spendthrift heirs, and other risks. Our wealth transfer planning professionals analyze federal and state laws to identify creative solutions that best address your wealth preservation and transfer goals.
Residential/ Commercials Closings
D&W Law understand the significance of homeownership and works with clients to finalize residential closings in a way that is simple, straight-forward, and hassle-free. To us, purchasing or selling a home is an incredibly important step in one’s life that can be daunting, and we aim to take the worry and anxiety out of the process.
Our experienced real estate attorneys will work ensure the process is transparent and runs smoothly. D&W Law’s Residential/Commercial closings practice prides itself on our ability to deliver prompt services and consistent communication with all parties necessary to bring your matter to a successful and expedient closing. We believe that our responsiveness sets us apart from many other firms that handle real estate transactions and will help put your mind at ease during this process.
Our attorneys have experience handling both residential and commercial real estate transactions, as well as the sales and purchases of businesses and their assets.
Dispute Resolution
D&W Law’s professionals are well-equipped to handle contentious controversies that can negatively impact individual and/or business growth.
When commercial disputes arise, D&W Law’s cutting-edge approach to dispute resolution services provide a reliable means of resolving them as efficiently and economically as possible. We offer thoughtful and cost-conscious alternatives to litigation for resolving disputes of all types (e.g., employment, contract, community, family, business partner disputes, and more).
What’s more, our professionals are trained to serve as professional neutrals and are available to provide services to parties experiencing disputes that are available to anyone: from individuals, to small businesses, to private sector enterprises, to governmental entities.
Contracts
D&W Law provides legal services to assist our clients with developing their products and services, negotiate and draft contracts, protect their intellectual property, and achieve your business objectives.
We have experience and expertise in the technology, hospitality, trucking, construction, and medical sectors.
From negotiations to final review, we understand that each stage of contract development is critical to our achievement of our clients’ business goals. Whether our clients desire business contracts, employment contracts, or individual agreements, we have the professional know-how and experience to help you effectively and efficiently close on your transactions. To us, the success of our clients’ business is our success.
Construction Litigation
New Section D&W Law assists clients with the development, evaluation, and execution of their mission-driven goals through strategic consulting that centers on solution building. Our mission is to help for-profit and non-profit companies maximize their impact. Whether devising policy-driven communications and engagement strategies, or working with an organization to restructure internal operations to align on their core values, D&W Law is committed to delivering excellent, cost-conscious client services that bring the objectives, goals, and dreams of our clients to fruition.
Business/ Nonprofit Consulting
D&W Law assists clients with the development, evaluation, and execution of their mission-driven goals through strategic consulting that centers on solution building. Our mission is to help for-profit and non-profit companies maximize their impact. Whether devising policy-driven communications and engagement strategies, or working with an organization to restructure internal operations to align on their core values, D&W Law is committed to delivering excellent, cost-conscious client services that bring the objectives, goals, and dreams of our clients to fruition.
In our fast-evolving world, business leaders need to be nimble and have the ability to address serious problems with thoughtful solutions. We utilize our relationships and know-how to advance our clients interests and enhance their ability to meet the needs of the constituencies they serve.
New Section
D&W Law assists clients with the development, evaluation, and execution of their mission-driven goals through strategic consulting that centers on solution building. Our mission is to help for-profit and non-profit companies maximize their impact. Whether devising policy-driven communications and engagement strategies, or working with an organization to restructure internal operations to align on their core values, D&W Law is committed to delivering excellent, cost-conscious client services that bring the objectives, goals, and dreams of our clients to fruition.
In our fast-evolving world, business leaders need to be nimble and have the ability to address serious problems with thoughtful solutions. We utilize our relationships and know-how to advance our clients interests and enhance their ability to meet the needs of the constituencies they serve.